Silk Floss Trees - 6 months old

We're following the growth of some Silk Floss trees, whose seeds were collected in Santa Monica, CA.
The Silk Floss tree gets its name from the silky fibers that surround the seeds. If you follow this link you'll see the trees when they were three months old.
Now at six months, they're a little more than 3 ft tall and they're showing some spikey growths on the trunk that characterize a mature tree.

The barbs are supposedly involved in water storeage.

Here's some baby pix of the crown of the biggest tree and the two trees side by side.

Living on the East Coast, the trees will be spending the winter inside. We'll see if they survive confinement.

If they survive, it may be a while before they flower.

The Most Interesting Man in The World Talks Floss

The work of the NFC's,  Donovan K!

The Most Interesting Man in The World

Talks about Flossing...

 

Flossing Elephant

Our intrepid Board Chairman, Sir N.D. Gryphon VII, A.s.C, recently visited a refuge for orphaned baby elephants and photoed one of them cleaning his tusks with the rope of his enclosure. 

Unlike humans, elephants never forget - to floss.

Silk Floss Trees - 3 months old

An earlier post shows seeds collected from a silk floss tree,
The young plants are now 3 months old.
Some baby pictures -

Dr. Bures Waxes About Floss

Three cheers for Dr. Frank Bures and his recent brief history and song of praise about floss!
Here it is from the Winona Daily News - Getting to the root of good flossing.

Beyonce and Blue Ivy Flossing

When Beyonce and her daughter, Blue Ivy floss together on Instagram, we are here to tell you about it.



In case you want an 8 sec version with music, that's available on youtube

Floss on, Beyonce and BI!

True Gentleman's Jerky Includes Floss.

This isn't really news, because the guys at True Gentleman's Jerky have been saying they include a packet of floss in every bag ever since they did their Kickstarter campaign in 2013.



But to mix a bad metaphor, beef  jerky is not my cup of tea. After the zombie apocalypse, I might start eating beef jerky. Regular beef is so good!

For the record, the NFC has been promoting the idea of including floss in snack foods since we introduced the Flossing Policy Initiative in 2009.

"Since there is general agreement among dental health authorities that between-meal snacks are a major source of cavity-promoting foods in our daily life, and individually packed snack foods are an ever-growing source of these foods, the National Flossing Council is calling on manufacturers of snack foods and candies to investigate the practicality of packaging their products with a string imbedded in the package. This string could be located to help open some snack foods, and, when the snack is done, it could serve as floss to clean the consumer’s teeth of snack residues."

Times change fast - few, if any, single unit floss packs were available until recently.

Great work, Gentlemen! Please let me know if you do something creative with a fruit jerky.